020 | Bill Gates Buying Up Farmland & Smoked Queso
Today is another Candid Conversations episode! In these episodes, we’ll cover topics within agriculture, rural entrepreneurship, and life in general. Today we cover our weekly obsession, industry news about Bill Gates and Chinese companies buying farmland, and our community recipe: smoked queso!
018 | Being a Working Mom, Journaling & Turning 35
Today is another Candid Conversations episode! In these episodes, we’ll cover topics within agriculture, rural entrepreneurship, and life in general.
016 | Dutch Farmer Protest, Cupcakes & Quiches
Today is our first Candid Conversations episode! In these episodes, we’ll cover topics within agriculture, rural entrepreneurship, and life in general.
015 | How to Avoid Social Media Burnout with Natalie and Tara
Today we’re talking about a topic that’s been on our minds for a while: social media burnout. We’ve been having several conversations with each other as well as with you all, that a lot of people are at the peak of their burn out due to changes and shifts within the apps. Today we’re going to have an open and honest conversation about our frustrations and excitements and how we’re going to continue to show up and use the tool of social media.
014 | How to Create an Irresistible Offer with Michelle Mensing Photography
On today’s Mastermind episode, we’re speaking with Michelle Mensing about how to package her offers to get more exposure. Michelle grew up on a family farm in southwest Iowa and was active in 4-H and FFA growing up. Following college, Michelle started her career in the agriculture industry and picked up a camera as a hobby in her free time. She loved how that creative outlet kept her connected to the family farm she grew up on.
013 | Join our Community Book Club
On today’s episode, we are discussing our new Elevate Book Club! Every month we’ll read and discuss a new book as an Elevate community. At the beginning of the month, we’ll send out an email with that month’s book title and the guest who picked it. Then, at the end of the month, tune into our podcast for an episode devoted entirely to all things book club fun!
ELEVATE THE SUMMIT ANNOUNCEMENT
On today’s bonus episode we wanted to dive deep into our latest offer: Elevate the Summit. This is a high level, small group mastermind and coaching community for the agriculture, western and rural entrepreneur who is ready to accelerate their impact, streamline their income and elevate themselves and their business to the next level.
011 | How to Negotiate Pricing for Brand Partnerships, Salaries and More
On today’s episode we’re talking about all things negotiating pricing, brand partnerships, salaries and more. We are going to walk you through our proven strategies of negotiating starting with knowing your worth and not being afraid to ask for it. Talking about money can make people uncomfortable, but we are not shying away from the tough conversations. We are sharing our firsthand experiences of negotiating.
009 | How to Share Your Story on Social Media with Natalie & Tara
Elevate Ag is an online course and community where farmers, ranchers and other producers can come together to access the tools and information they need to craft, share and monetize their own personal Ag story.
Created by Agriculture for Agriculture, Elevate opens the doors for the rural entrepreneurs so they can ELEVATE themselves, their businesses and the lifestyle we all love. Enroll now!
008 | How to Manage Outsourcing as a Multi-Passionate Entrepreneur with Dr. Marissa Hake
Dr. Hake is what we call a multi-passionate business owner. She has many interests, and we’d say she excels in all of them. While this can seem like a good thing, and oftentimes is, sometimes being a multi-passionate business owner can also come with negatives too. Like being spread too thin, feeling overwhelmed and lacking the time needed to tend to all your businesses. Listen to today’s mastermind as we deep dive into all of these different things with Marissa and brainstorm what we can do to help her feel more in control of all of her online ventures.
007 | Navigating Change with Tara & Natalie
When we brainstormed this episode about navigating change, it felt super aligned given both of our current seasons right now. Both of us are going through a LOT of change right now, and even though it feels right, it is still extremely hard and comes with plenty of resistance. So whether our good friend “change” evokes excitement and rejuvenation into you or creates sheer and utter panic in you, it is inevitable as we grow as individuals - both personally and professionally. So join us as we dive deep into what it looks like to navigate change.
006 | Mastermind: Building an Online Course & Starting a YouTube Channel with Meghan Gates
Like many, Meghan started sharing online with one goal in mind and is now looking to grow her brand, diversify her income and expand her business. What started as simply sharing her homesteading life has slowly turned into brand work, an apparel line and most recently, the launch of an online course with thoughts of pivoting to a YouTube channel. With so many changes, Meghan is here today to brainstorm what most of us ask ourselves - how do we successfully pivot our businesses?
005 | 5 Tips for Sharing Online with Natalie & Tara
It can feel a little intimidating as you start sharing online. For many, social sharing, and ultimately social selling, is stepping into an entirely new arena and one of the first things you may want to know is what to expect. On this episode, we will be looking at 5 things we think you should know about sharing online. We tried to go beyond the generic advice and dive a little deeper. While keeping the big picture in mind: growing your business.
003 | Mastermind: Creating an online offer for Agriculture & Mental Health with Ashley Machado
Ashley has been fortunate enough to arrive at a place where she feels incredibly aligned with her passions and is now looking to turn them into a profitable business. With so many dreams and different paths to bring them to fruition, Ashley is here to talk today about what so many of us struggle with: where to start in creating an offer and how to best spend our time selling that offer. Tune in as we take Ashley’s ideas and turn them into a working model she can put into the world.
002 | Quitting to Six Figures w/ Natalie & Tara: Starting Our Online Businesses
These are exciting times! We’re building something new. Bringing our ideas to life and putting them out into the world for others to enjoy. But navigating this season can be hard; how do you manage working one job while building another one? How do you know when the time has come to go all in? These are some of the things we discuss on today's episode: Quitting to Six Figures.
000 | Welcome to Elevate Ag the Podcast: A Business Building Podcast
Welcome to Elevate Ag the podcast, a business building podcast where we interview and mastermind entrepreneurs in the agriculture, western and rural space.